Is National Lampoon's Vacation actually good?

National Lampoon's Vacation sits in the 82.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.2% of them.

How does National Lampoon's Vacation compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, National Lampoon's Vacation lands in the 80.4% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is National Lampoon's Vacation's score based on?

200 calibrated reviewers stand behind National Lampoon's Vacation's score.

1983

global pct

82.2

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

National Lampoon's Vacation

Name: National Lampoon's Vacation
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Released: 1983

Scored from 200 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

82.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

80.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

200 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Chicago suburbanite Clark Griswold loads his wife and kids into the family station wagon for a cross-country road trip to Walley World, a California theme park. What he envisions as the perfect bonding vacation devolves into a cascade of misadventures involving difficult relatives, car troubles, and a string of detours that test his increasingly unhinged determination to deliver fun at any cost.

Released in 1983, National Lampoon's Vacation is an adventure and comedy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.

The calibrated figure is built from 200 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 206 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 200
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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